The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-29


president OF the institution since its organiza-
ton, and who has done more perhaps 10 make
1t what 1t is and to populariZe it with the peo-
PIE throughout the state, a tour of the whole
place was made. The lecture and recitation
rooms were visited. Everything was plain. but
neat and comfortable; the appliances for illus
tratlon and eSperimentwe complete and sys-
tematzed. The course of study in the college
Is not elective, every student is compelled to
take prescribed course. and after graduation
may then devote his time and energy to the
study OF some particular branch more in detail.
In the chemical department, agricultural and
industrial chemistry is perhaps more thor
ouShly taught than in any institution in the
country because the student is compelled to
perform actual work. The professor Of chem
lstry is the state chemist and the analysis of
fertilizers is conducted in his department: the
manufacturer pays S25 for each analysis, a part
OF which goes to the professor and part to the
college, and other actual work of an important
character is performed here, which will be eX-
planned later on when the operations of the
farm are described.
In the mess hall everything is neat and Or
DERBY, the meals are served in military style,
and are we'll conducted. The most wholesome
fare IS given to the students, for they require
IT, The outdoor work these men perform
whets their appetite, and they eat like what
they are--strong, robust, healthy workers.
General Lee carried me into the kitchen,
where the dinner was being prepared. At
eight dollars per month, one would not think
that very attractive meal could be prepared
anu yet here is what the students had that Sat
urday: Roast pork the meat being raised at
the college; rice, turnip green's, peas, potatoes,
tomatoes, corn bread, bakers bread, with cot
Zee and milk. Surely one requires nothing
more, and the menu is sufficiently
one, from firing of any particular
food.
On each students entrance he is required to
deposit five dollars as a medical fee. This
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pltal in charge of trained nurse from the
Charity hospital in New Orleans. A physi-
clan, also resident, looks after the sick but, as
rule the habits Of the young men are such
that there is very little sickness among them.
IN the dormitories there is no oyercrowding.
Last term General Lee permitted three to oc-
cupy one room, but becoming convinced that it
was not healthful, he ordered it to be discon-
tmued Now only two are CHARTERED together
On account OF limited sleeping accommoda-
tons, the college cannot begin to accommo-
date those who apply. The applications from
states other than Mississippi are simply aston
ishing. OF course, none can be taken, for the
reason that the institution being
state college where tuition is free, the state
demand must be first met and so far this
has not been done. If the Mississippi as
sembly should appropriate $4,000 for the
erection OF dormltory the size of the present
one,sl venture the statement, Contained from
conversation with men in no wise connected
with the college, that it would be Immediate
ly occupied. There are today scores of appIi-
cations on file in the secretary's office, and
as soon as a student drops out because of sick
ness or the fact that he has been offered the
management of some creamery OF farm, there
is a rush for the vacancy.
The college is so wonderfully successful and
so universally popular in Mississippi and that
too among a class of people who in Georgia are
enemies of education, that / asked General
Lee the cauSe. His answer is significant and
to those who are interested in education ali i'm
portant. Said he, 1--WE have never lost sight
of the purpose for which we were
always steadily pursued it; organized as an
agricultural college we have always been one
everything we have done has been done with
an eye locking to the improvement of the ag
rcultural community. We have taught prac-
teal farming, our experiments have been of q
practical nature, and the farmer at first dis
posed to resent the insinuation that his child
rem could be taught how to make land pro-
ductiye better here than at home, has about
come round, and now comes here himself with
his troubles. We get inquiries every day from
farmers III regard to farm matters, all OF
which are promptly answered.
"When we We're organized they put us here
on old, worn-out land which we believed at
the time would cause the whole affair to be a
failure. But it has turned out blessing. The
people have seen what we have produced by
our efforts from that old land, have noted the
improved condition of that land, and we have
tuition commands their respect. l believe"
continued General Lee, chat the college has
no better friends in the state than the farmers,
and L judge by the fact that over half of our
pupils are the sons of real practical farmers"
The president was too modest to speak of
the hold the college had upon the people gem
orally, but the sentiment of the state is that
what was first tried as an experiment has be-
come a certainty. and what was once doubtful
has resulted in success that all Missis-
sippi is proudly conscious of. In another let
ter I will speak of the wonderful farming OPP
erations of the college, and especially OF the
theory of Professor Galley for restoring fer
tlity to old worn-out land, that has attracted
so much favorable attention. II. II. T.
What Became of Napoleon's Fortune?
From the Washington Herald.
One of the most remarkable historical Incl
dents Of this century the disappearance of the
first Napoleons enormous fortune. In 1910 lie was
far and away the richest individual in the world.
He came out Of the Italian campaign ending in
1909 with 100000, according to his own account
This he maintained his private property.
Taking the statements lie made to his friends and
Others at St. Helena, he must have hidden away
Wien he left France the last time the enormous
sum Of so $50 000 Or 200 0OO COO ancsl This would
make him very much the wealthiest in the
world, for that sum then was equal in influence to
S209,0 0,000 now. No sovereign Of his time could
begin to approach him in personal fortune. Mar
sGal sout the last Of the imperial marshals who
died in November, 1851 just about year before his
great antagonist, the duke of Wellirgton), told a
venerable French general officer, who repeated 1t
to The writer that when the emperor vent t. Elba
he had Gp,oO0o0O francs covered up in Paris alone.
OF the S120 COO hard cash paid over at one time
by tie United states5o NAPOLEON as first consul in
1903, it was common rumor-not very general you
may be sure howevcr-tha 100000 francs of the
sum was never accounted for in vouchers This
might easily have been Napoleon was then first
coisal for life. Re could 90 just what he chose,
ard nobody dared call him to account
1t is not very difficult TO hide money in large
sums too so it cannot he found be the search ever
50 careful. Ferdinand Ward has some millions
thu, fogered up and no human being has ever yet
found clue to IL stolen treasure 1t was said and
believed by man. people, too that stephen Girard,